“The church doesn’t call them child molesters, or baby-rapers, or anything so terribly stigmatizing. No, predatory priests were ‘ephebophiles,’ part of the church’s PR campaign to ‘dimensionalize’ its own degenerates.
They know exactly how to play it. First, you make up some ‘syndrome’ or ‘disorder’ that covers the crime. Then you give it some fancy-sounding name, and count on the whores and fools to spread the word. You don’t have to prove anything, just repeat it often enough, preferably through a good media machine. Doesn’t matter if the entire scientific community sneers at it. What counts is that it gives defense attorneys an argument for a ‘non-incarcerative alternative.’ And black-robed collaborators all the excuse they need.”
—Dead and Gone (2000), by Andrew Vachss |